How to get WebDriver using Python to delete an existing value in the table of a confluence page?
Here's what the HTML code looks like for a confluence page:
tbody
tr
td
some text here
tr
td some text here
tr
td
<span>some text here</span>
If I click on a element and then do a send_keys("XYZ") then all that goes into the middle of the existing text. For example, it can result in any of the following:
soXYZme text here
some tXYZext here
soXYZme text hXYZere
I've also tried double-clicking on the element but that doesn't work properly either. That deletes some part of the existing text only.
How do I clear the existing value in the td element knowing that there's no "input" tag anywhere here. Hence, I cannot use WebDriver's clear() method.
Edit: Please note that sometimes the cells will have a blank value too.
selenium-webdriver confluence
asked Nov 13 '18 at 3:23
MugenMugen
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Here's what the HTML code looks like for a confluence page:
tbody
tr
td
some text here
tr
td some text here
tr
td
<span>some text here</span>
If I click on a element and then do a send_keys("XYZ") then all that goes into the middle of the existing text. For example, it can result in any of the following:
soXYZme text here
some tXYZext here
soXYZme text hXYZere
I've also tried double-clicking on the element but that doesn't work properly either. That deletes some part of the existing text only.
How do I clear the existing value in the td element knowing that there's no "input" tag anywhere here. Hence, I cannot use WebDriver's clear() method.
Edit: Please note that sometimes the cells will have a blank value too.
selenium-webdriver confluence
asked Nov 13 '18 at 3:23
MugenMugen
44931026
add a comment |
Here's what the HTML code looks like for a confluence page:
tbody
tr
td
some text here
tr
td some text here
tr
td
<span>some text here</span>
If I click on a element and then do a send_keys("XYZ") then all that goes into the middle of the existing text. For example, it can result in any of the following:
soXYZme text here
some tXYZext here
soXYZme text hXYZere
I've also tried double-clicking on the element but that doesn't work properly either. That deletes some part of the existing text only.
How do I clear the existing value in the td element knowing that there's no "input" tag anywhere here. Hence, I cannot use WebDriver's clear() method.
Edit: Please note that sometimes the cells will have a blank value too.
selenium-webdriver confluence
asked Nov 13 '18 at 3:23
MugenMugen
44931026
Here's what the HTML code looks like for a confluence page:
tbody
tr
td
some text here
tr
td some text here
tr
td
<span>some text here</span>
If I click on a element and then do a send_keys("XYZ") then all that goes into the middle of the existing text. For example, it can result in any of the following:
soXYZme text here
some tXYZext here
soXYZme text hXYZere
I've also tried double-clicking on the element but that doesn't work properly either. That deletes some part of the existing text only.
How do I clear the existing value in the td element knowing that there's no "input" tag anywhere here. Hence, I cannot use WebDriver's clear() method.
Edit: Please note that sometimes the cells will have a blank value too.
selenium-webdriver confluence
selenium-webdriver confluence
asked Nov 13 '18 at 3:23
MugenMugen
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asked Nov 13 '18 at 3:23
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I was editing confluence cells using ActionChains. And ActionChains, for some reason doesn't provide the clear() method.
However, I was able to solve this problem by directly calling the webdriver instance's clear function. So my code looks something like this for confluence:
actions = ActionChains(driver)
#ACTIONCHAINS DOES NOT HAVE A CLEAR FUNCTION
driver.find_element_by_xpath("(//td[contains(@class, 'confluenceTd')])[0]".format(i) ).clear()
actions.move_to_element(driver.find_element_by_xpath("(//td[contains(@class, 'confluenceTd')])[0]".format(i)))
actions.double_click()
actions.send_keys("SOME DATA")
actions.perform()
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I was editing confluence cells using ActionChains. And ActionChains, for some reason doesn't provide the clear() method.
However, I was able to solve this problem by directly calling the webdriver instance's clear function. So my code looks something like this for confluence:
actions = ActionChains(driver)
#ACTIONCHAINS DOES NOT HAVE A CLEAR FUNCTION
driver.find_element_by_xpath("(//td[contains(@class, 'confluenceTd')])[0]".format(i) ).clear()
actions.move_to_element(driver.find_element_by_xpath("(//td[contains(@class, 'confluenceTd')])[0]".format(i)))
actions.double_click()
actions.send_keys("SOME DATA")
actions.perform()
answered Nov 13 '18 at 10:25
MugenMugen
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I was editing confluence cells using ActionChains. And ActionChains, for some reason doesn't provide the clear() method.
However, I was able to solve this problem by directly calling the webdriver instance's clear function. So my code looks something like this for confluence:
actions = ActionChains(driver)
#ACTIONCHAINS DOES NOT HAVE A CLEAR FUNCTION
driver.find_element_by_xpath("(//td[contains(@class, 'confluenceTd')])[0]".format(i) ).clear()
actions.move_to_element(driver.find_element_by_xpath("(//td[contains(@class, 'confluenceTd')])[0]".format(i)))
actions.double_click()
actions.send_keys("SOME DATA")
actions.perform()
answered Nov 13 '18 at 10:25
MugenMugen
44931026
add a comment |
I was editing confluence cells using ActionChains. And ActionChains, for some reason doesn't provide the clear() method.
However, I was able to solve this problem by directly calling the webdriver instance's clear function. So my code looks something like this for confluence:
actions = ActionChains(driver)
#ACTIONCHAINS DOES NOT HAVE A CLEAR FUNCTION
driver.find_element_by_xpath("(//td[contains(@class, 'confluenceTd')])[0]".format(i) ).clear()
actions.move_to_element(driver.find_element_by_xpath("(//td[contains(@class, 'confluenceTd')])[0]".format(i)))
actions.double_click()
actions.send_keys("SOME DATA")
actions.perform()
answered Nov 13 '18 at 10:25
MugenMugen
44931026
I was editing confluence cells using ActionChains. And ActionChains, for some reason doesn't provide the clear() method.
However, I was able to solve this problem by directly calling the webdriver instance's clear function. So my code looks something like this for confluence:
actions = ActionChains(driver)
#ACTIONCHAINS DOES NOT HAVE A CLEAR FUNCTION
driver.find_element_by_xpath("(//td[contains(@class, 'confluenceTd')])[0]".format(i) ).clear()
actions.move_to_element(driver.find_element_by_xpath("(//td[contains(@class, 'confluenceTd')])[0]".format(i)))
actions.double_click()
actions.send_keys("SOME DATA")
actions.perform()
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